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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1944
Page
1
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Two navy ammunition ships exploded near Port Chicago California killing 200 to 650 personnel and injuring hundreds. The blasts destroyed the depot dock area and damaged Port Chicago and Suisun Bay, prompting daylight searches for missing sailors and civilian injuries.
Wreckage blankets Port Chicago California as an ammunition ship explosion rocks the area. The Port Chicago Theater walls collapse while 195 patrons watch a war film. everyone escapes with minor injuries and the town reports widespread damage to homes and the railway station. Theater owner Joe Meyer was blinded momentarily by debris but directed evacuations.
Gen Yoshijiro Umezu named chief of Japan's army general staff, a post long held by Tojo ally. Umezu, ex Kwantung Army chief and ambassador to Manchuria, joins Tojo who remains premier and war minister. Navy reshuffle keeps Tojo and his supporters in power despite Saipan crisis.
Second Lt. Douglas W. Cook 26 of Douglas Wyoming died at Barksdale Field hospital after leaping from a burning bomber during takeoff. Five crew members were hospitalized with bruises and lacerations, including pilots and gunners from Long Beach California to Sulphur Springs Texas. Funeral plans were pending as officials expected his body to be returned to Douglas.
Pacific fleet heavyweights renewed bombardment of Guam with battleships cruisers and destroyers joining attacks to soften defenses ahead of possible landing. Carrier planes targeted anti air installations as Japan reports Saipan defeat and leadership shakeups unfold in Tokyo and Rome amid peace rumors.
Washington July 8 Representatives of Britain Russia and China will gather here within three weeks for general talks on organizing a world peace framework. Hull says talks to begin probably early August and will discuss a world security organization including a United Nations style assembly and a big four council with small nations represented.
Gov Dewey denounces a powerful group using money to influence the voting rights of New York service members. He calls for exposing the alleged campaign of deceit and urges families of service men to inform their relatives about their vote rights under New York law.
Dispatch from Moscow reports every reason to believe the Red Army is ready for its greatest offensive of three years of war. Signs point to attacks toward Lwow and the Galati gap, with forces advancing near Grodno and along routes from Brest Litovsk toward Warsaw and the Bug river as German lines collapse in multiple sectors.
The speaker criticizes attorney general Francis Biddle for labeling the Roosevelt era as a labor movement. He argues unions are controlled by dictatorial groups and individuals, condemning the portrayal as democratic deceit.
Southern delegates at the Democratic national convention rally behind Virginia Senator Harry Byrd after Mississippi pledged its 20 votes to oppose New Deal policies. About fifty Southern delegates from eight states plan to press for platform planks backing states' control of race matters as concessions to Byrd. Continued on sixth page.
Floyd L. Scott, 19, naval painter from Baltimore, recalls the blast at Port Chicago as the barracks housing 1500 men collapsed and ammunition exploded. He describes lights out, a second explosion, and men screaming as debris and shrapnel filled nearby buildings. Other witnesses recount being thrown by force and seeing metal chunks strewn around.
A postwar stance urging US participation in an association of free nations was proposed to the Democratic platform committee by the American Legion led by Louis A. Johnson. It supports using force to maintain world peace and to prevent future wars, with immigration limits until unemployment drops below one million.
July 18 Chicago dispatch reports supporters urge Vice President Wallace to rush to Chicago to lead renomination efforts as Roosevelt’s public show of support hints at backing. Byrnes and Barkley clash over convention influence while Crowley maneuvers with Byrnes to sway delegates amid a fracturing Wallace camp.
A spokesman for editors urged a world wide free press at a Democratic platform meeting in Chicago Efforts led by John S Knight publisher of the Detroit Free Press and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors seek a policy ensuring unimpeded news flow Knight backed a plank for a world wide free press as a safeguard against future wars Senator Carl A Hatch supported the idea and Kent Cooper AP chief backed the plank as postwar planning centers on constitutional freedoms and the media role.
London reported that German captors have shot 33 more Allied fliers. Sir James Grigg told the Commons that 27 of the new cases involved fliers shot during escape attempts. three killings' circumstances were not disclosed. Eden previously cited 50 fliers shot.
American troops entered St Lo after heavy fighting as German forces retreated from the medieval fortress town in Normandy. Allied fronts reported progress along multiple sectors with British and U S forces both pushing advances near Caen and Lessay while Germans planned no house to house stand in St Lo.
American forces announced capture of Pontedera twelve miles east of Pisa on the Arno. The gain follows the fall of Ponsacco and advances toward Livorno, with British and South African units securing a bridgehead and moving toward Arezzo as Allied troops push toward Florence.
Hollywood mourns actor Alan Dinehart age 48 who died after a two week illness from a heart ailment and double pneumonia. native of St Paul Minnesota he appeared on Broadway and in films including Bachelor Affairs The Whistler Fast and Loose Slightly Honorable and A Wave a WAC and a Marine. He is survived by his widow Mozelle Britton Dinehart two sons Alan Dinehart Jr 25 and Mason Alan Dinehart III 8 the older son serves in the army overseas private funeral and cremation planned.
Chicago July 18 The Associated Press tally shows Wallace leading with 319 pledged or claimed votes and a total of 837 unpledged. Byrnes attracts 20 Mississippi votes while Kentucky and South Carolina hint at Barkley or Byrnes, with Missouri under consideration for Truman if named.
Ward Bond, noted Fila Actor and former USC football star, was hit by a car after a movie premiere in Los Angeles. He sustained a severe compound fracture to his left leg and may require amputation, hospital officials report.
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